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How Military Wives Kept Love Alive in World War II

On the 65th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we take a glimpse into the romantic lives of the Greatest Generation.

Jane Leder's new book Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex and World War II tells the story of the "wandering wives" -- women who traveled from town to town to stay near their military husbands before they shipped out.

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Karen Grigsby Bates is an NPR senior correspondent.